Christine Bleakley turns out to watch Lampard play

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Christine Bleakley turns out to watch Lampard play Christine Bleakley is now officially a WAG after she went out to the Stamford Bridge game yesterday evening to show her support for Chelsea boyfriend and striker Frank Lampard.

Bleakley’s appearance at the game last night shows that their relationship is moving along nicely.  She even brought a friend with her, Amanda Holden, who showed up clear support of the other team with an Everton scarf wrapped around her neck.

On the other hand, Bleakley has not yet gone the full length of being a WAG, as she showed up with Christian Louboutin heels obviously more concerned about fashion and the photo ops that were to come.

Unfortunately, her appearance did not send any luck Lampard’s way as the team drew with Everton 3-3.

Although speculation was flying about a relationship between Lampard and Bleakley for months, the couple only confirmed its status during last month after being careful to slowly advance their relationship.

The pair met each other at the ITV1 Pride of Britain awards last October and has been spotted often at the Chelsea Hollywood Arms and the North London Harvester restaurant.

Lampard is recently split from former Elen Rives with whom he has two daughters with, Isla age two and Luna age four.

Rives is not taking time to bask in the sorrow however, as she kicked off the new Diamond Boutique lingerie line designed by Michelle Mone last month.

Holden on the other hand just finished completing work on a midwife documentary due to air on ITV.

English clubs in financial dream world

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English clubs in financial dream world Even though English football has long been known as the richest club game in the world, this week the financial sheath was revealed showing that there is not as much as thought from the top Premier League, let alone the others.

It is expected that soon Sven Goran Eiksson will stop associating with the Nott’s football club.  The prospect comes in combination with news that Portsmouth may be falling into administration, and that there will be another takeover, which is thought to be only the first step towards the point when many clubs will start to collapse.

Of course, there is more to the rumours with Sir Alex Ferguson forced to deny last week that Manchester United is a financial crisis since deciding at the last moment not to sign Adem Ljajic for nine million pounds.  This is thought to be the result of the clubs debt to the Glazer family that totals up to about £70m.

Even with Ferguson’s claims, it will be hard to believe him until the money from the £80m sale of Ronaldo is actually spent by United.

United is not the only club in possibly in trouble, with Liverpool manager Rafa Benitez stating that the new priority of the club is to pay off their debt, which totals up to £300m.  In order to raise the money it is possible that Fernando Torres could be sold although Benitez has threatened to resign if this were to happen.

Even the most budget conscious clubs are worried as clubs such as the successful Everton announcing that it calculated it will have substantial losses at the end of the season.

Cruise, Diaz and Holmes take in Seville match

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Cruise, Diaz and Holmes take in Seville match It was hard to wipe the smile of Tom Cruise’s face yesterday given that most would die to be in his position accompanied by his wife the beautiful Katie Holmes and his new co-star the famous girl next door Cameron Diaz.

Cruise was in the stands at the Champions League football match at Sanchez Pichan with the two ladies while taking a break from filming his new movie which takes place in Spain.

The entire game Cruise had a large toothy grin while he joked with Diaz and exchanged kisses with Holmes.  Seville ended up winning the game with a score of 1-0 although it appeared that Cruise would have enjoyed himself either way.

Club President Jose Maria del Nido met the stars after the game and presented them with official Sevilla Football Club shirts that had their names embroidered across the back.  A nice change of pace for the two movie stars who were seen filming stunt scenes in Seville just a day earlier for the film Knight & Day.

Both stars were involved with the stunts which took place on motorcycles that were attached to the back of a film truck.  One particular scene involved Diaz sitting on Cruise while holding two very large guns.

Holmes finished work on her latest movie The Romantics earlier in the month and travelled with their daughter Suri to Spain to spend some time with her husband.

Seville is just the latest stop for Cruise and Diaz who have been seen on location filming for the movie in Salzburg, Austria and Boston as well.

Going to the World Cup Finals? Keep an eye on the exchange rate.

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If you are going to the World Cup Finals in South Africa, it might be a good idea to keep a close eye on the exchange rate.  Figures from M&S Travel Money show that the rand rate has fluctuated against sterling by as much as 3.3 rand per pound during the past year. In October travellers could get 11.39 rand per pounds, compared to 14.69 rand last December.

M&S Money are advising fans to keep track of currency rates rather than wait until next summer to purchase their spending money, especially since supporters will be paying thousands of pounds on flights, hotels and match tickets, and will want to get the most for their money.

Of course there is no way of predicting what the rate will be next summer, however English fans should keep track of the rand rate over the coming months.

Victoria Beckham’s fashions hijacked from truck

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Victoria Beckham’s fashions hijacked from truck Victoria Beckham suffered a fashion blow when her new £35,000 collection of dresses was stolen during a well thought out roadside heist at knife point.

The collection which includes between 50 and 75 dresses took Beckham months to design. The dresses were taken from a lorry that left Beckham’s West London management offices.

The driver was not seriously injured although he was bruised and shaken from being pushed to the ground during the hijack. Beckham was said to be devastated about the loss with a source including the fact that with everyone including Madonna is wearing her designs the dresses have a ‘money can’t touch’ air about them.

The source continued to say that the hijack was planned out perfectly and that the thieves must be sure they will sell well on black market.  The lorry was supposed to deliver the dresses to the airport but stopped to make a delivery at another address.

The driver came back from the delivery and noticed the padlock was broken at which point the thieves jumped out of the back and ran off with the dresses.

Beckham was said to be notified immediately and was expectedly crushed, but glad to hear the driver was not injured. A cinema CCTV camera shows the hijack, but the pictures do not show the registration of the truck used by the thieves.

Since Beckham has started a fashion career her work has been seen on megastars such as Brooke Shields, Katherine Jenkins, and Drew Barrymore.